Special Lectures

Prof. Dr. Claudine van Hensbergen (Northumbria University)

Dr. Leo Mellor (Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge)

postponed to summer term 2021

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postponed to summer term 2021

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May 20, 2020, Professor Martin Johnes (Swansea University)

"Wales: Its History and Identity"

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January 20, 2020, Dr Rosemary White (Universität Northumbria University, Newcastle)

"June Whitfield and how British sitcom endorsed and undermined cultural norms of feminity and domesticity from the 1960s to the early 21st Century"

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"Storms and Teacups: Thomas Hardy's Quiet Catastrophes"

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“Metadrama and Metatheatre in Hamlet”

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“Getting Sucked into Books: A Literary History of Immersion”

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“Strange Meetings: Truces and Exchanges with the Enemy in the Long Nineteenth Century”

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"Reading for Happiness"

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“Literary Atlas: exploring digital literary geographies”

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“Shakespearean Passages to and from India: Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider (2014) and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram-Leela (2013)”

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"Post-Industrial Melancholia: the Brexit vote in Wales" & "Imaging the Internal Colony – vision and narrative in Raymond Williams’s Border Country"

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„James Kelman: Working-Class Selves and Radical Narrative in The Busconductor Hines (1984)"

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„Reading the Early Modern Diary"

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„The Split Self in Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey“

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„Towards a Room of Her Own: Locating the Ageing Woman in Late Victorian and Edwardian Fiction“

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„Representations of Italy in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Queer Culture“

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„The Representation of Trauma in Gail Jones's Black Mirror (2002), Sixty Lights (2004) and Sorry (2007)“

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„Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Writers and the Popular Press“

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(Br)exits and Entrances: Britishness and the Four Nations post-1945

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Angela Carter and Second Wave Feminism workshop

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Wales post-Brexit workshop

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Crafting the 19th-Century Drawing-Room Stage

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Fears and Phobias in late 19th-Century Culture

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”Plenty of Woman Candidates Required!” - The London School Board in 19th-Century Women Periodicals

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Ageing Women in Late 19th and Early 20th-Century Literature: Emerging Discourses and Identities

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“A People Taut for War”?: 20th-Century Welsh War Writing

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Tangible Pasts: The Novel and the Material Histories of Antiquarianism, 1700-1820

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"Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Cottingley Fairies: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Networks of Fiction, Science and Religion"

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"The whites have become black" - Responses to the English Riots of 2011, Critical Whiteness Studies and the Trouble with 'New Ethnicities'

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The Symbolic Impact of Women’s Representation on Citizen’s Political Attitudes: Measuring the Effect through Survey Experiments

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The Amateur and the Theatrical Marketplace: Lacy’s and French’s Acting Editions of Plays

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Nineteenth-Century Women’s Periodicals

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Reworkings of the Actaeon Myth in Renaissance Literature

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The Politicisation of the British Museum during the Nineteenth Century

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Crossover Fiction and the Adolescent Economy of Writing in the Works of Margo Lanagan

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Poetry Reading and Film Screening

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Contemporary British Poetry and the Environment: The Quality of Attention

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Trauma in Northern Irish Poetry: Expressing the Ungraspable

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Reading the Palimpsests of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

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Questioning Rape Narratives in Contexts of Transitional Justice: Post-Yugoslav and Post-Apartheid South African Literatures

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The Law of the Land: Legal Geography, Daniel Defoe’s A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain and the British Union

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The Miltonian Eternal Conflict as a Storytelling Device in British Twentieth-Century Fantasy

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Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

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Comedy and Mass Media in Post-War Britain

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Office Work and Occupational Health: The Case of Postal and Telegraph Clerks in Victorian Britain

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Sticks, Skins, Beards and Bulbs: Artificial Mothers and the Matter of Fiction

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YA Literature: Jugendliteratur, Literaturvermittlung und transnationale Buchmärkte

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Culture in British Cultural Studies

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Spenser's Ireland, Ireland's Spenser: Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Elizabethan Legacy

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Other Stories: Strangers and Intrusions in Ali Smith's Fiction

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Early Modern Literature and Political Thought: Shakespeare, Lipsius, Montaigne

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Anne Clifford's Great Books: A Transformative Narrative of Identity and Place

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An Introduction to Sikhism and its Place in the UK today

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The 1916 Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebrations

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Debate Strategies in Early Modern Dialogue

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Adaptations of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre"

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Science and Gender in "Sherlock"

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Scottishness and Scots Law: Nationhood and the Law in Great Britain in the Eighteenth Century

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The Eternal Conflict in Literature, Film and Games

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Social Economics in South African Literature for Adolescents

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Envisioning the British Colony: Inverse Perspectives and Blurring Identities in Saki's "When William Came"

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Renaissance Literary Careers

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Tangible Pasts: Literature and Antiquarianism in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

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Dylan Thomas as a WWII War Poet: Flowers, Bodies, Terrors

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Writing Conflict 1934-37

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The Lion Dies for the Lamb: Revisiting Edmund Spenser, C.S. Lewis, and Disney's Lion King

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"Do they read Castle Rackrent in the trenches?" Anglo-Irish Identity, The Great War and the Big House

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Women in the Post-Apartheid Novels of Nadine Gordimer

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"I'm going to Gretna Green": Clandestinity, Scots Law and British Courtship Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Benefits and Books: The Welfare System and it Literary Response in Scotland 1980 - 2014

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Private Theatricals and the English Middle Class, 1870 - 1900

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(In)visible Monarchs: a Media-historic Analysis of Female Royal Icons in Painting and Photography from Queen Victoria to Duchess Catherine

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Problems of Identity: Language, Race and Nationhood in the Literatures of Wales

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Weaponised Refuse: The City, Identities and Resistance in British Future-War Fiction 1871 - 1914

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Motherland?: Gendered Constructions of Wales in art and poetry

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Early Modern 'Science Fiction' (Francis Godwin, Johannes Kepler, Francis Bacon)

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Francis Bacon's 'New Atlantis'  and the Vicissitudes of Intertextuality

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Facing up to Reality: Recent Developments in South Africa's Literature for the Young

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'Am I not a Man and a Brother?' Würde, Sympathie, und weibliche Partizipation in der britischen Anti-Sklaverei-Bewegung, 1780 - 1830

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Verbrechen und "the criminal mind" im (Neo)Viktorianismus

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Woolf's Signifying Dog and the Missing Lynx: Animalous Readings in Poe, Woolf, Lacan and Derrida

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New Interactive Literatures: Reworking Ideas of the Epic in RPG Video Games

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(Re-)Writing Ireland's Great War: Frank McGuinness and Dermot Bolger

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Fictional(ized) Outdoor Documentaries or the Wilderness Home Tour

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Late Victorian and Edwardian Invasion Fiction and its Imperial Contexts

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Regulating Law and Literature: The 1753 Marriage Act and the Novel

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Places of Meaning, Ways of Knowing: Sense-Making in the Sensation Novel

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Grandmothers' Dreams: Heredity and Replication in D. H. Lawrence and Henry James"

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Looking for 'Eve Smith': Female Responses to Political Economy, c. 1790 - 1840

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Faculties losing their balance? The Working of Obsessive Reading in Sensation Novels

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Representations of Space in South African Youth Fiction of the New Millenium

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The World is What We Make It: Humanity, Technology, and the Environment in Recent Steampunk Fiction

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Broken Engagements. The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800 - 1940

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Krankheit als Topos in der zeitgenössischen Kunst

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Puerperal Insanity and Infanticide in Women's Writing in Britain in 1890s

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Quantifying Desire, Qualifying Disease - Don Juanism and Nymphomania in Spanish Literature and Cinema

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Going Wild: Exploring Constructions and Motifs of Wilderness in Contemporary British Literature

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Ein richtiger Indianer ? Kranke Jungen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

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Diseases from the Belly to the Heart: Sex an Gender Matter!

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Ageing and Mortality in Dickens and Wilde

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Of He-Nurses and She-Doctors: Fighting and Writing Yellow Fever in the American South

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Obstetrics and Gynecology in Uganda

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Disastrous Birth-Nights: Childbed and Child-Birth in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Reflections on Gender and Medicalization

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Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year, Gender and Historical Culture

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The Dragon's Two Tongues: Literature and Language Politics in Contemporary Wales

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Gender Differences in Immune-Related Disorders

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Gender Differences in Renal Diseases and Renal Transplantation

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Krankheit als Heil? Genderperspektiven auf das Opfer der Gesundheit in der Literatur des Mittelalters

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Fashionable Disease and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Risky Life Style or Risky Genes? Health Differences between Men and Women

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Österreichischer Rundfunk, Radio Ö1 Wissenschaft: 'Vererbung' zwischen Biologie und Kultur

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The texture of her nerves and the palpitation of her heart: Vocation, Hysteria, and the 'Surplus Female' in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medical Dscourse

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The Boys of St. Columb's

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A  Boethian Paradigm in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde": Some formal and verbal evidence

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Was there a Victorian "Double Standard" of Ageing?

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The Unnatural Youth of the Old "New Woman

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Senile Sexuality

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The New Old Man and the Neutral Man-Woman: Gender and Ageing in Victorian Fiction

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The Invention of the "Ageing" Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century: Late Style and German Critics

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The True Morality of Fiction: Ageing Truths in Some Writings by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Exhausting the Powers of Life": Ageing, Energy and Productivity in Nineteenth-Century Scientific and Literary Discourses

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Worst Agers: Children as Old People in Victorian Fiction

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Poor Mother's Gowing Old: The Representation of Ageing and Old Age in 'The Girl's Own Paper' (1880 - 1900)

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Freedom of Testation in Victorian England

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The World Is All Being Remade: Intergenerational Conflict in J.M. Barrie's War Plays 

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Old Age and the Transatlantic Indian: Cross-Racial Mentorship in Narratives of National Belonging

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The fin-de-siècle's Literary and Scientific Discovery of Ageing

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Re-assessing the "Old" in the Lives and Afterlives of Arnold Bennett's 'The Old Wives' Tale'

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A Respectful Challenge to the Nineteenth-Century's View of Itself: An Argument for the Early Modern Medicalization of Old Age

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The Political Uses of Forgetting: Nationalist Nostalgia on the Jacobean Stage

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Aspects of Gender in Irish War Literature

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Real Wilderness? - Exploring Ideas of Wilderness and Authenticity in Contemporary British Fiction

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Why has the New Woman never a word to say for herself on the stage? Feminism and the English Theatre in the 1890s

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The Prison House of Historiography - Objects Lost and Found in the Novels of Sarah Waters

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What Is It Like To Be A Rat? Early Cold War Glimpses of the Post-Human

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Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: From Research to Novel, Play Script to Stage Performance

Förderung [mit Peter Waller]: Vielberth-Stiftung, Regensburg

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Diana Wynne Jones: Witch Week. Alterity in an (Anti-)School Story

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Wie ähnlich ist uns der Affe, dies äußerst scheußliche Tier! Darwins "Affentheorie" im Spiegel der Viktorianischen Kinderliteratur

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Sensational Strategies: Women's Authorship, Editorship and Performance in the Victorian Press;

Förderung [mit Katharina Boehm]: Vielberth-Stiftung, Regensburg

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'No house but mine to make your scene?' Urbane Schwellenräume, Diagnosen des Stadtkörpers und symbolische Geschlechterordnungen in frühneuzeitlichen City Plays

 

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Gender Confusion and the Dominant Female Voice in Jeanette Winterson’s Novels: The Passion (1987), Written on the Body (1992), Gut Symmetries (1997) and the PowerBook (2000)

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'Double Colonization' and Female Authorship

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Medusenaugen und Sirenenstimmen. Zum Problem der Autorschaft in der Moderne (Nietzsche - Kafka - Freud)

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Paul Klee und die sexuelle Genese der Kunst

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Gendered Authorship in the Henry James Circle

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Little Savages, Dwarfs and Bottled Babies: Childhood, Popular Science and Literature in the Victorian Period

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'An insane desire to see the author': Herman Melville, Henry James and the Gendered Spaces of Nineteenth-Century Authorship

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Gendered Images of Creativity in Maupassant

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The Lake Poets: Romantic Subjectivities, Topography, and Authorship

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Dame Nature’s Imagination: Creation, Creativity and Gender in Early Modern Cabinets of Curiosities

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Music and the Irish Literary Imagination

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'Amaz'd we read of Nature's early Throes': Gender and (the) Creation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

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Enlightenment Struggles over Gender and Creation: The Debates on Spleen

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Gender, Creation and Authorship in the Late Middle Ages

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Philomela, Gender, and Poetic Myths of Origin

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And ye shall know the truth, Or, The Gospel according to Darwin

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Imitation of Similar Beings: Social Mimesis as an Argument in Evolutionary Theory around 1900

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Against Genres: Shakespeare's Mingled Drama

Förderung: Vielberth-Stiftung, Regensburg

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WDR ZeitZeichen: 400. Geburtstag von John Milton

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Manufacturing Monsters: The Experiments of Professor Higgins and Dr. Moreau

Förderung [mit Rainer Emig]: Studieneinheit Gender Studies

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